Abstract
The present paper argues that in the retail gasoline industry, excise taxes, by amounting to a substantial part of prices, increase the firms’ degree of market power as demand elasticity is decreased. To avoid this market power effect, a ‘flexible value tax’ on gasoline is proposed. It yields equivalent tax revenues as the excise tax without disturbing competition in the retail gasoline market.
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